John Greenleaf Whittier Poems

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91.
Inscription On A Fountain

FOR DOROTHEA L. DIX.

Stranger and traveller,
Drink freely and bestow
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92.
First-Day Thoughts

In calm and cool and silence, once again
I find my old accustomed place among
My brethren, where, perchance, no human tongue
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93.
Cobbler Keezar's Vision

The beaver cut his timber
With patient teeth that day,
The minks were fish-wards, and the crows
Surveyors of highway,-
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94.
The Eternal Goodness

O Friends! with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aisles of prayer,
Glad witness to your zeal for God
And love of man I bear.
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95.
A Song Inscribed To The Fremont Clubs

BENEATH thy skies, November!
Thy skies of cloud and rain,
Around our blazing camp-fires
We close our ranks again.
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96.
Kathleen

O Norah, lay your basket down,
And rest your weary hand,
And come and hear me sing a song
Of our old Ireland.
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97.
My Soul And I

Stand still, my soul, in the silent dark
I would question thee,
Alone in the shadow drear and stark
With God and me!
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98.
Centennial Hymn

I.
Our fathers' God! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
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99.
The Angel Of Patience

To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God's meekest Angel gently comes
No power has he to banish pain,
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100.
Hazel Blossoms

THE SUMMER warmth has left the sky,
The summer songs have died away;
And, withered, in the footpaths lie
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